Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Parastoo Abtahi @parastooabtahi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton | #HCI #AR #VR #SpatialComputing
parastooabtahi.com
m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social politics/technology/capitalism. prof somewhere.
enthusiastic guitar guy. book on why vc was a bad idea the whole time coming from UChicago Press
writing - https://oddletters.com/
stickers+noise - https://duopoly.bandcamp.com/merch
i curse a lot
he/they
Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social I write about abortion every day at abortioneveryday.com Read my newsletter & find me other places here: linktr.ee/jessicavalenti
📚 My new book 'Abortion' is out now prh.com/abortion
ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT). June 2026 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 #FAccT2026
https://facctconference.org/
Mike Farrell @heymike.bsky.social Founder & CEO of @compiler.news 
Shannon Wild Smith @shannonwildsmith.bsky.social Formerly Nan Lawson. Artist / Illustrator. Past clients: Warner Bros, Harper Collins, Penguin Random House & more. She/Her. Contact: hello@shannonwildsmith.com portfolio: shannonwildsmith.com
J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social I work with communities on science for safer, fairer digital environments.
Founder: CAT Lab. Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard. Assoc Prof, Communication, Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Ultracyclist
🐘@natematias@social.coop
natematias.com
citizensandtech.org
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Guy Hoffman @guyhoffman.bsky.social 
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Sarita @saritas.bsky.social 
Travis Hall @travisrh.bsky.social Director of State Engagement for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Tech policy and parenting.
Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social Tech & human rights @cdt.org
Posts, thoughts, dreams my own.
Not Alia Bhatt
aliya-bhatia.com
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
ACM CHI @chi.acm.org The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
#CHI2026 is in Barcelona, Spain 🎨 April 13 -17.
Content managed by Social Media Chairs.
Gus Hurwitz @gushurwitz.bsky.social Senior Fellow and Academic Director @ Penn Carey Law School Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition
Director of Law & Econ Programs @ ICLE
Mike Masnick ✅ @mmasnick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Techdirt guy. I once wrote a paper about "Protocols, not Platforms" that seems to be slightly relevant. Also can follow my Bluesky posts at @mmasnick.bsky.social
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
R Street Institute @rstreet.bsky.social We're a free market think tank advancing real solutions to complex policy problems. We work on tech, cybersecurity, clean energy, justice, occupational licensing, flood insurance, and more.
Book our experts/media: PR@rstreet.org
See our work: rstreet.org
Zach Graves @zgr.bsky.social Chief at FAI
Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com "A blend of tech insights, dad humor, and existential musings... Bonus points if you can explain data portability over bourbon."
http://mchrisriley.com (... of course)
Peter Chapman @pfchap.bsky.social Associate Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) at Georgetown University
[views my own]
TechCongress @congressfellows.bsky.social Recruiting tech talent to Congress.
techcongress.io
Travis Moore @travismoore.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, TechCongress
Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social Knight-Georgetown Institute connects independent research with technology policy and design.
Zander Arnao @zanderarnao.bsky.social arkansas raised, commanders fan, working on tech and competition policy at the knight-georgetown institute
Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social Executive Director of the Knight-Georgetown Institute at Georgetown University
Leticia Bode @leticiabode.bsky.social Professor at Georgetown, research director at KGI. Studying information, politics, health, etc. Also cats, Badgers, Astros, food, gardening. 
Nate Persily @persily.bsky.social James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social 🌐Studies influence, propaganda, platform design@Georgetown
✍🏼Lawfare,The Atlantic, Substack/Ghost Newsletter (signup on my site if you want Ghost)
📕Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality (invisiblerulers.com)
🦹🏻♀️Twitter Files supervillain
Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social Professor, Fordham Law School
https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/reclaiming-the-internet
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1084259
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com Member of technical staff @anthropic.com. Law professor (on leave) @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Contributing editor @lawfaremedia.org. Former DOJ. alanrozenshtein.com
Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social Sociotechnical network/systems thinker, visionary, inventor, pioneer | Author: @TechPolicyPress, FairPay | Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foundation for American Innovation
@bbimber.bsky.social @bbimber.bsky.social 
Daniel Kreiss @dkreiss.bsky.social Prof, researcher UNC CITAP, Tech + Politics.
Dhavan Shah @dvshah.bsky.social Dhavan is Jack M. McLeod Professor of Communication Research, Maier-Bascom Chair, and Director of the Mass Communication Research Center at the UW-Madison.
David Broniatowski @broniatowski.bsky.social Professor at The George Washington University in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering.
Faiza Patel @faizapatel.bsky.social Co-Director, Liberty & NatSec @BrennanCenter
Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social Professor at UNC. PI at CITAP. Researching & writing on political comm: identity, social media, public opinion, news - all "depressing & timely" BOOK: Media & January 6th (Oxford) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/media-and-january-6th-9780197758533
Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin @engagingnews.bsky.social The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
hannahbw.com
Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Nikolas Guggenberger @nikenberger.bsky.social Asst Prof, University of Houston Law Center
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social PoliSci/Comm @ UW-Madison via UMich. US politics, votes, violence, history, psych. 3📚+1 on the way: How WE Make American Democracy. Wide Awake. Views mine, ~90% right. Dad w/ jokes. 🧗🏼*🧙🏻*🥏⛳🏆 nathankalmoe.com
Belle Torek, Esq. 🇭🇹🏳️🌈 @belletorek.bsky.social Law, tech policy, survivor safety & privacy @nnedv.bsky.social. Advisory Committee, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Former AI & Tech @hrc.org. Vintage style, not vintage values. Views my own.
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Matt Hindman @matthindman.bsky.social Professor at SMPA GWU
Author of *The Internet Trap* and *The Myth of Digital Democracy*
political communication | digital platforms | politics of AI
Washington, DC
Anna Lenhart @annalenhart.bsky.social Tech Policy (University of Maryland & George Washington). data scientist. anti-monopolist. consumer advocate. former hill staffer.
Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu A multidisciplinary research center at the University of Washington in Seattle helping individuals, communities and institutions navigate our complex information environments.
Website: cip.uw.edu
Brandon Silverman @brandonsilverman.bsky.social working on something new. former ceo & co-founder of crowdtangle, policy advocate for open internet & transparency, 3x boy-dad, less frequent dog walker.
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Nate Fast @natefast.bsky.social Prof at USC; researching power, tech, & ethics; Director, Neely Center for Ethical Leadership; Co-founder and Co-director, Psychology of Technology Institute
Inga Kristina Trauthig @ingakris.bsky.social Research prof at Florida International University
Focus on cybersecurity and national security
PhD from King's College London
Previous Longhorn 🤘
DeVan Hankerson Madrigal @dvhankerson.bsky.social DeVan Hankerson Madrigal, State Policy Engagement & Research Manager @cdt.org. Previously @gtowntechlaw. All tweets are my views only; retweets + likes may not be.
Pronouns: she/her
https://twitter.com/dvhankerson
https://techpolicy.social/@dvhankerson
Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland. Luddite
I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
www.tamarakneese.com
Serena Oduro @serena124.bsky.social AI policy @datasociety and Writer
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Zeve Sanderson @handle.invalid Executive Director @csmapnyu.org
Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
Noëlla Boudart @noellab.bsky.social Climate & Health. Story. Sustainability. Collaboration.
Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social Dir. of Global Partnerships, Inst. for Information, the Internet & Democracy, NEU | Union of Concerned Scientists 2024 Defender of Science |
Co-founder: https://researchersupport.org/
https://expertvoicestogether.org/
https://independenttechresearch.org/
Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social Program Director of Trustworthy Infrastructures @datasociety.bsky.social & talking about racial capitalism @ NYU Wagner. Formerly Ford Foundation, MIT DUSP. She/her.
Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social Researcher on social media misinformation and manipulation, director of the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe.iu.edu, pronounced “awesome”) at Indiana University
@marchionini.bsky.social @marchionini.bsky.social - I Ravi Iyer @iyerland.bsky.social Managing Director USC Neely Center
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social 🌎 #journo researcher & program manager at @cmdgtech.bsky.social by @openmarkets.bsky.social 📝 media, digital markets, AI, public policy | 🗣ESP, FR, PT | https://linktr.ee/pressgirlk 📍Bay Area, CA |
Talia Stroud @taliastroud.bsky.social Prof UT-Austin, Director Center for Media Engagement
Jo(sephine) Lukito @jolukito.bsky.social DDC Professor of Digital Communication and DIAS Chair at the University of Southern Denmark | Modern Kilogirl 👩💻 | Computational Linguistics & Global/US PolComm
Center for Communication & Civic Renewal @cccr.bsky.social CCCR is an interdisciplinary research center at UW-Madison that aims to understand public opinion & the broad political communication ecology of WI & beyond through social science methods. Engaged scholarship, rooted in democracy. https://cccr.wisc.edu
Ariana Aboulafia @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social disability rights activist.
tech policy’s biggest swiftie.
views my own. 🏳️🌈⚖️
Drew Courtney @drewcourt.bsky.social Working for civil rights and civil liberties in tech. Lover of cities in general, DC in particular. Also: books, tea, bikes, etc. Comms Director at @cdt.org but all opinions are my dog's
Alexandra Reeve Givens @alexreevegivens.bsky.social CEO at Center for Democracy & Technology, fighting to protect people’s rights & our democracy in the digital age.
Proud daughter & Board Member at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Eric Null @nullset.bsky.social Public policy (tech/privacy) by day, everything else by night
Director Privacy & Data Program, Center for Democracy & Technology, @cendemtech.bsky.social.
Views expressed here are mine: hastily adopted, uninformed, and deeply held.
He/him!
Joselyn @joselyn.bsky.social Environmental Engineering | Limnology 🐟
Alex Sciuto @sciutoalex.bsky.social Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
Brian Cooper @briancooper.bsky.social 💻 web development
👽 synthesizers
⭐️ software developer @Adafruit
Ben Fry @benfry.com Running https://fathom.info since 2010 / spent 22 years building https://processing.org and supporting its community / sometimes seen teaching at https://mit.edu
Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social Political science professor at McGill 🇨🇦⚜️Hiram Mills Chair; Co-Director, Jean Monnet Centre Montreal;
Russo-Ukrainian war; Rule of law, (anti)corruption; European politics 🇺🇦 🇧🇬 🇪🇺. Opinions mine.
https://linktr.ee/popovaprof
Aidan Jones @aidanjones.bsky.social 📖 Wannabe philosopher turned writer
🇨🇦 ON, Canada
✉️ TWO weekly newsletters available below
beacons.ai/aidanjones
Luke Girgis @lukegirgis.bsky.social Talent Manager for @simonegiertz @christianhull @heypoppyreid @laura_kampf | Founder Rolling Stone & Variety Aus, sold 2024 | GP at Lamp Post Capital
Douglas Rushkoff @rushkoff.com I write, think, and podcast about media, technology, and society. Author, Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human.
Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@douglasrushkoff
Support: https://www.patreon.com/teamhuman
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Evan Ackerman @evanackerman.bsky.social Senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. I hug robots.
spectrum.ieee.org
Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social Senior editor @science.org. Molecular biology, #DNA, #RNA, #gene regulation, #epigenetics, nuclear biology, #chromatin biology, 3D #genome, #synbio, #CRISPR and gene editing, other bacterial immune systems, and #AI in all these
DigitalTrends @digitaltrends.bsky.social Everything #Technology
Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. Chaotic Good.
June Kim @junekim.bsky.social data & graphics @nytimes.com | previously @technologyreview.com @insideclimatenews @scientific_american
Mike Stringer @mike.stringer.io People, data science, and design. Critical friend of technology. Chicagoan.
Currently: dad, fractional leader, nerd
Previously: IDEO partner, Datascope cofounder, physicist, nerd
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab. - S Phoebe Sengers @sengers.bsky.social Cornell prof, politics of technology design, rural infrastructure, social impact of design, speculation.
Ilaria @ilaria.bsky.social 
Sara Baker @sarabaker.bsky.social tech/data/gender research, writing, and advocacy; organizational strengthening; gardening in TN | ex @Engnroom @takebackthetech @apc.bsky.social | she/her
banner photo: purple graffiti on a white wall reading NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS
Adam Gayoso @adamgayoso.bsky.social Machine learning and biology. Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. adamgayoso.github.io. Views are my own.
Dan Hastings @notdanhastings.bsky.social Award-winning magazine journalist 🇬🇧🇷🇪🏳️🌈- He/Him - Somehow French - https://danhastings.co.uk/